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...Editor Balcioglu is only one of the several thousand newsmen who, over the last six years, have felt the mighty wrath of Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes...
...last week in Istanbul, the portals of Uskudar prison snapped shut on Sahap Balcioglu, editor and publisher of Kim (Who), a Turkish weekly newsmagazine. Barring commutation of his sentence, which is unlikely, Balcioglu will spend the next 16 months in Uskudar...
...Premier ordered the Grand National Assembly to pass stringent new laws to control newsmen. Since then, nearly 900 have been found guilty -some of them two and three times-and sentenced to terms ranging up to three years. The list of arrests grows weekly: last week, besides collaring Balcioglu, police stood silently by at Istanbul's airport when Ahmet Emin Yalman, dean of Turkish journalists and editor-publisher of the daily Vatan (Nation), arrived from a trip to Pakistan to put his affairs in order before entering prison for his third conviction in as many years...
...crimes for which Turkish newsmen are jailed would be considered fair editorial treatment in any other democracy. Editor Balcioglu was jugged for reprinting part of a story by U.S. Newspaper Publisher Eugene C. Pulliam (the Indianapolis Star, nine other papers), who, after a 1958 visit to Turkey, called the Premier a poor administrator and a conceited man. Tune Yalman, subeditor of Vatan and son of its publisher, was sentenced to prison for writing that the "government is uncultural...
...from bringing Turkish newsmen into line, Adnan Menderes has only made them more circumspect. Above all else the Turks have spirit, and the Turkish press has responded to its travail with courage. When Kim's Balcioglu went off to prison, his magazine, faced with a month's suspension and a fine, merely went out of business as Kim and back into business as Mim (Mark). Stoically accepting the laws as occupational hazards, the responsible press goes right on practicing the journalist's right to print the truth, even when it hurts as much as it does...
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